Abstract
Our central aim is to explore the ideas involved in the claim that certain institutional structures economize on virtue and, in particular, to explore the widely held idea that reliance on institutions that economize on virtue may undermine virtue itself. We explore these ideas both by discussing alternative conceptions of 'virtue' and 'economizing', and by constructing a simple model of the relationship between a specific institutional structure that may be said to economize on virtue and the emergence of virtue. © 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 35-56 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Constitutional Political Economy |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Dec 1995 |